Industry Leader Continues Season-Long GT-10 Celebration with Special Offers
(TORONTO) – Golf Town – Canada’s largest golf retailer with unequaled selection and competitive prices at 47 locations coast to coast – announces it has partnered with the Royal Canadian Golf Association to become an official vendor of tickets for the 2009 RBC Canadian Open.
In celebration of the 100th Canadian Open, and as part of the season-long GT-10 campaign commemorating its own 10th anniversary, Golf Town is currently selling tickets to the event at 12 Toronto-area locations. Hosted by Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, ON, the PGA Tour’s second-oldest tournament will take place July 20-26, and ticket options include weekly badges for $110 or “Anyday Passes” for $55.
“As the centre of the Canadian golf community, Golf Town continues to help players of all ages develop a lifelong connection to the game,” says Stephen Bebis, President and CEO. “The RBC Canadian Open is the country’s premier golfing event, and we’re proud to offer our customers a great opportunity for front-row seats to the game’s top performers.”
Available while supplies last, tickets can be purchased at the following Toronto- area Golf Town locations:
Aurora
Downtown Toronto
Etobicoke
Hamilton
Markham
Markham East
Kitchener
Mississauga Heartland
Mississauga
Scarborough
Whitby
Woodbridge
Part of the FedExCup, the 2009 RBC Canadian Open offers a purse of $5.1 million. Contenders will include defending champion Chez Reavie, along with marquee players like Stephen Ames, Mark Calcavecchia, Fred Couples, Luke Donald, Trevor Immelman, Anthony Kim, Camillo Villegas and Mike Weir, among others.
Golf Town offers an unbeatable selection of clubs, bags, balls, apparel, footwear, accessories, gifts, logo merchandise, promotional services and more. This includes the world’s leading golf brands, such as Adams, Ashworth, Bridgestone, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, Cobra, Dunning, ECCO, FootJoy, Founders Club, Gordon Cooper, Greg Norman, Honma, Hugo Boss, LaCoste, Liz Claiborne, LIJA, Mizuno, Never Compromise, Nike Golf, Odyssey, Ogio, Paradise, Ping, Srixon, Sun Mountain, TaylorMade adidas Golf, Titleist and Wilson.
For more information, please visit www.golftown.com.
About Golf Town
Canada’s largest golf retailer, Golf Town was founded in 1999 and has grown from one location in Scarborough, ON, to 47 superstores coast to coast. At an average size of nearly 18,000 square feet, these retail centres feature all the major name-brand products at the best price, ensuring customers find what they want, when they want it.
A centre of the Canadian golf community for individuals and organizations, Golf Town locations serve as sanctuaries where players of all ages and abilities try, buy, learn about and improve their games. The largest employer of CPGA professionals, Golf Town offers on-site lessons tailored to an individual’s needs through its In-Store Academy.
The retailer has also established Canada’s leading customer advantage initiative via its Leaderboard Membership Privileges Program. Benefits of this free membership include the chance to win a $500 gift card in a national monthly drawing; timely e-newsletters; members-only special offers on equipment, accessories, golf lessons, in-store events; and more.
Golf Town was acquired by OMERS Private Equity, the entity responsible for private equity investments of the OMERS pension fund, in September 2007. For more information: www.omerscapital.com.
Already a leader in logo products for golf events and other programs, Golf Town purchased Accolade Reaction Promotion Group, Inc., in May 2008 and has created a one-stop-shop for the promotional needs of businesses, meeting planners, sales and marketing executives, and human resource professionals. Named a 2008 Top 40 Distributor by the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), ARPG is the first Canadian corporate merchandise services firm to achieve ASI Top 40 Status. For more information: www.arpg.ca.
Contact:
Kevin Satz
Buffalo Communications
703.891.3394
ksatz@billycaspergolf.com
